Roanoke County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

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High Intensity Commercial District

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Dimensional standards

Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot area: 15,000 sq ft (0.34 ac)
Minimum frontage: 75 ft

Setbacks

Front: 30 ft
Rear: 15 ft
Side: 0 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum height: 45 ft
Maximum lot coverage: 90%

Uses

Permitted by right63

Accessory7

Side yard: None.
Rear yard:
Principal structures: 15 feet.
Height limitations:
Principal structures: When adjoining property zoned R-1 or R-2, 45 feet, including rooftop mechanical equipment. The max
Building coverage: 50 percent of the total lot area.
Lot coverage: 90 percent of the total lot area.

Extracted standards

4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

Maximum building coverage50 pct
Building coverage: 50 percent of the total lot area.
Minimum frontage (private well and sewage)100 ft
Frontage: 100 feet on a publicly owned and maintained street.
Minimum lot area (private well and sewage)43,560 sqft
Lots served by private well and sewage disposal system: Area: 1 acre (43,560 square feet).

Setback

Front setback when all parking is behind front building line20 ft
Front yard: 30 feet, or 20 feet when all parking is located behind the front building line.

From the ordinance

Lots served by either public sewer or water, or both: Area: 15,000 sq ft. Frontage: 75 ft. Front yard: 30 ft (or 20 ft if parking behind). Side yard: None. Rear yard: 15 ft. Height: 45 ft when adjoining R-1/R-2, otherwise unlimited. Building coverage: 50%. Lot coverage: 90%.
Sec. 30-54-3

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "Where a lot fronts on more than one street, front yard setbacks shall apply to all streets."
    ]
  }
}

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